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Originally posted by Andy
I've got two.....
I was working at a low level college tournament and was watching on my game off. One of the officials working had been regularly working in the PAC 10 and Big Sky for a few years. The coach of one team was extremely frustrated (maybe because his terrible team was down by 30+ points?!?) and did not like a foul call against his team by the PAC 10 official.
Coach looks at him after he reports and says "You don't do much college ball, do you?" Official looks him straight in the eye and says "Not at your level, coach".
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Several years ago, I was working a game at a Native American college. Small school, not very good. The gym is not any bigger that most HS gyms and the fans and students are right there close to the court. For this particular game, some of the Native American students had brought some sticks and drums and other noisemakers. After a few times that the noisemakers were used during play, one of my partners went to talk to the kid with the big bass drum. I see him talking to the kid and then turn around and head back to the court with a big grin on his face. Here is the conversation between my partner and the student:
Ref: You can't play that drum while the game is in progress.
Student: You can't tell me not to play my drum.
Ref: (puzzled) Why not?
Student: (with a straight face) It's part of my culture!
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Those are both great. I still think it would have benefitted situation #2 if he had game mgmt talk to the kid. What would you really do in that situation? Artificial noisemakers are against the rules and so is growing marijuana but they can do that on the reservation.